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the gentleman from texas. the gentleman from texas, mr. smith. the gentleman from michigan has reserved his time. mr. smith: mr. chairman, i yield three minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. garrett, he's the vice chairman of the budget committee. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey for three minutes. mr. garrett: i thank you. i rise in support of h.r. 4078, the regulatory freeze and jobs act. at a time after regulation after new regulation is being proposed by the obama administration, it's critical that we restore some semblance of order in the regulatory process and ensure our small businesses don't continue down in a sea of red tape. so i thank you congressman griffin and chairman smith as well and chairman issa and leader cantor and the rules committee as well for including the s.e.c. as part of title 7. it subjects them to the president's executive order. what it does is inquire enhanced cost-benefit analysis requirements as well as require a review of existing regulation. title 6 will enhance the s.e.c. existing cost-benefit a
the gentleman from texas. the gentleman from texas, mr. smith. the gentleman from michigan has reserved his time. mr. smith: mr. chairman, i yield three minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. garrett, he's the vice chairman of the budget committee. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey for three minutes. mr. garrett: i thank you. i rise in support of h.r. 4078, the regulatory freeze and jobs act. at a time after regulation after new regulation is being proposed by the obama...
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he was -- he completed a master in education at texas southern university. he own as master of divinity from the heist graduate school of theology. a houston graduate in austin presbyterian, the interest was on philosophical implications of ministry as it affected the culture of today. he has done advanced training at texas southern university, and houston graduate school of theology in counseling. he did an internship with the bel air columbia general in their special unit. he served as a lecturer at the central baptist convention, and teaches pastoral ministry. he was a conferee to the transitional church conference, southern baptist convention. and as well he was honored to be president or to be third vice president to the ippedpent general district sunday school and b.t.u. he is a gentleman that uses faith to be of service. he deals with the philosophical implications of peace and justice issued for today's church. how important that is when so many people are hurting. in the backdrop of the tragedy of aurora, it is imperative that our faith leaders are
he was -- he completed a master in education at texas southern university. he own as master of divinity from the heist graduate school of theology. a houston graduate in austin presbyterian, the interest was on philosophical implications of ministry as it affected the culture of today. he has done advanced training at texas southern university, and houston graduate school of theology in counseling. he did an internship with the bel air columbia general in their special unit. he served as a...
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talk to a manufacture like i have in my district in jacksonville, texas. half of their work comes from the medical device company. he said, you know what, obamacare, the medical device tax, will force him to lay off workers. the employer mandate costs jobs. the congressional budget office , as the gentleman from maryland just cited, they themselves said it will cost 800,000 jobs. private economists, one million to two million. chamber of commerce just did a survey of small businesses, 74% said this makes it more difficult to hire. so after the president just turned in his 41 straight month -- 41st straight month of 8%-plus of unemployment, the worst economic performance since the great depression, maybe it's time for a true jobs bill, madam speaker, and a true jobs bill is to repeal obamacare. the american people do not want it. we can't afford it. job creators are losing jobs by -- let's repeal it and repeal it today. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from connecticut. mr. larson: thank you, madam speaker. at this
talk to a manufacture like i have in my district in jacksonville, texas. half of their work comes from the medical device company. he said, you know what, obamacare, the medical device tax, will force him to lay off workers. the employer mandate costs jobs. the congressional budget office , as the gentleman from maryland just cited, they themselves said it will cost 800,000 jobs. private economists, one million to two million. chamber of commerce just did a survey of small businesses, 74% said...
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there's a new small business in my district in southeast texas. cool blast lemmon aid stand, run by the southern sisters of texas. clara is seven, eliza is four. their newees employee is little brother irick who recently was hired to join the team. they even have their own facebook page with 867 followers. on their facebook page they say this about their business, we are entrepreneurs who started a lemonade stand for lemonade day. we are going to continue to work to earn money to spend it on things we would like. they also share with our two chosen charities, meals on wheels, and paws for texas rescue. mr. speaker, they learned all of these lessons without any interference from the federal government. . their father andrew said this. they did it all only their own. nobody helped them except us. my wife and i both run our own businesses so running a lemonade stand was showing them what they could do. they were curious how we got money for things. mr. speaker, the girls stood out in 100-degree texas humid heat serving customers instead of being like
there's a new small business in my district in southeast texas. cool blast lemmon aid stand, run by the southern sisters of texas. clara is seven, eliza is four. their newees employee is little brother irick who recently was hired to join the team. they even have their own facebook page with 867 followers. on their facebook page they say this about their business, we are entrepreneurs who started a lemonade stand for lemonade day. we are going to continue to work to earn money to spend it on...
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for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. gohmert: i move that the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. and the motion is adopted. speaker of the house, the ds gentleman from ohio, mr. boehner. the speaker pro tempore: the speaker of the house is recognized. the speaker: let me thank my colleague for yielding. and say to my colleagues, i rise today in strong support of h.r. 6079, legislation that would repeal the president's health care law. when this bill passed, we were promised that the health care law would help create jobs. one congressional leader even suggested it would create 400,000 new jobs. guess what, didn't happen. this bill's making our economy worse, driving up the cost of health care and making it harder for small businesses to hire new workers. you know, the american people, we're told, they'd come to like this bill once it was passed. well, that didn't happen either. most americans not only oppose
for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. gohmert: i move that the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. and the motion is adopted. speaker of the house, the ds gentleman from ohio, mr. boehner. the speaker pro tempore: the speaker of the house is recognized. the speaker: let me thank my colleague for yielding. and say to my colleagues, i rise today in strong support of...
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the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. session: at this time i'd like to yield to the gentlewoman, a nurse, a health care professional prior to her service in the united states congress, the gentlewoman from from north carolina, mrs. ellmers, for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. ellmers: thank you. i thank my colleague from texas for acknowledging me. thank you, madam speaker. i'm here today to join my colleagues and call on the immediate repeal of obamacare with its massive tax increases. last month as we know the supreme court verified that obamacare is in fact a tax. one that increased the financial burdens of every american by over $500 billion. and will go down in history as the most significant expansion of the federal government and its power. this law has and continues to be bad policy for all americans and future generations. the supreme court's decision has sent a direct message to congress and policymakers that we have to get back to work to repeal this law and replace it w
the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. session: at this time i'd like to yield to the gentlewoman, a nurse, a health care professional prior to her service in the united states congress, the gentlewoman from from north carolina, mrs. ellmers, for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. ellmers: thank you. i thank my colleague from texas for acknowledging me. thank you, madam speaker. i'm here today to join my colleagues and call on the immediate repeal of...
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poe of texas. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized for five minutes in support of his amendment. mr. poe: my amendment cuts $1.3 billion in this bill that is going to afghanistan as stated in the report language of this bill. afghanistan is the benedict arnold in the list of countries that we call allies and have proven to be deceptive and deceitful to the united states and here is some of the evidence. pakistan closed down the southern supply route. it transported 40% of all nature oove supplies into the country and into afghanistan. pakistan still refuses to go after the terrorist sank you takers in the tribal areas. terrorist groups like the pakistani taliban and al qaeda frequently cross over into afghanistan, kill our troops and then run back into pakistan and hide where our troops cannot follow them. on may 23, 2012, pakistan sent the doctor that helped the united states get osama bin laden to 33 years in prison. i thought getting the world's number one terrorist, the terrorist t
poe of texas. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized for five minutes in support of his amendment. mr. poe: my amendment cuts $1.3 billion in this bill that is going to afghanistan as stated in the report language of this bill. afghanistan is the benedict arnold in the list of countries that we call allies and have proven to be deceptive and deceitful to the united states and here is some of the evidence. pakistan closed down the southern supply route. it transported 40% of all...
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the department of justice's has a case against the texas -- the state of texas, that the trial, shock was expressed in counting military ideas -- id. there is no excuse for failing to except the government-issued military i.d., and the public deserves an answer for this today. further partisan bias is clear in the national voters registration act enforcement, aggressively suing states for now -- for not aggressively enough registering voters at welfare offices, but not a single case to fight fraud. when ford tried to comply voluntarily by removing non- citizens from its boulder roles, and the department of justice rushed to course -- rushed to court, and lost. over objections, the department of justice forced dayton, ohio, to lower the passing score on the police recruitment exam to increase diversity even though federal law prohibits altering the results of employment-based tests on the basis of race. it appears the division is breaking the law. further, the civil rights division requires taxpayers to pay for costly bilingual ballots, even though it really exempts motors educated in
the department of justice's has a case against the texas -- the state of texas, that the trial, shock was expressed in counting military ideas -- id. there is no excuse for failing to except the government-issued military i.d., and the public deserves an answer for this today. further partisan bias is clear in the national voters registration act enforcement, aggressively suing states for now -- for not aggressively enough registering voters at welfare offices, but not a single case to fight...
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i'd like to yield to the obstetrician from texas, the gentleman from texas. mr. burgess: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i wanted to make one point on the score that was provided today. i know some people are looking at that and saying the cost for the program, for the affordable care act over the next 10 years, was only scored i think at $1.16 trillion, if i can use the words only and trillion together in a sentence, but what many people overlook is the congressional budget office must score under existing law. and one of the things that existing law does is cut physician reimbursement in medicare by 35% on december 31 of this year. so, add another $300 to $400 billion to that cost, just for the so-called sustainable growth rate formula which has not yet been repealed. now, we will fix that before the end of the year, for at least one more year. but the congressional budget office has no way of scoring that. they must go with existing law. the other thing that -- and of course the independent payment advisory board, same things applies. they have to think th
i'd like to yield to the obstetrician from texas, the gentleman from texas. mr. burgess: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i wanted to make one point on the score that was provided today. i know some people are looking at that and saying the cost for the program, for the affordable care act over the next 10 years, was only scored i think at $1.16 trillion, if i can use the words only and trillion together in a sentence, but what many people overlook is the congressional budget office must...
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for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. poe: mr. speaker, thousands of dead people and citizens of other countries are reportedly registered to vote in the battleground state of florida. texas, however, has passed a law that would require citizens to display a photo i.d. when they vote, but the justice department isn't interested in fixing voter integrity. even though the supreme court has said voter i.d. laws are constitutional. the d.o.j. ignoring the supreme court decision it doesn't like, sued texas anyway, claiming the law discriminates. the d.o.j. with its battery of high-dollar lawyers has apparently yet to find any evidence to back their claim. it brought in a hired gun to find support for its allegations, a biased liberal group called catalyst. so much for the d.o.j. being objective. instead of attacking texas for constitutionally enforcing the law
for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. poe: mr. speaker, thousands of dead people and citizens of other countries are reportedly registered to vote in the battleground state of florida. texas, however, has passed a law that would require citizens to display a photo i.d. when they vote, but the justice...
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first, diana from texas. caller: i did not believe the bank should be nationalized, but i believe it is time for the banks to quit using our money. they have been doing so for years. this is doing as no good, because look of auto companies we own. they turned right around and once they made some money, they gave their employees huge amounts of money just for working there. when i worked a job, i got paid my hourly salary, not an extra amount just because the government owned the company. host: think you for sharing your comments. let's look at "the denver post." midnight massacre, a day of mourning. talks about what has been happening in colorado in the wake of the shooting early friday morning. here is the president -- let's look of the comments president obama made yesterday after visiting with families who lost loved ones. [video clip] >> scripture says he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be morning, nor crying, nor pain anymore for the former thing
first, diana from texas. caller: i did not believe the bank should be nationalized, but i believe it is time for the banks to quit using our money. they have been doing so for years. this is doing as no good, because look of auto companies we own. they turned right around and once they made some money, they gave their employees huge amounts of money just for working there. when i worked a job, i got paid my hourly salary, not an extra amount just because the government owned the company. host:...
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he did not have% so in texas there is a runoff. now they expect 350,000 people. those 350,000 people are part of what you referred to as, stand on principle. that is why a lot of people thing cruz is the favored right now. what you get as sort of the primaries become more decided by just the narrow swath of the 350,000 texans who are going to vote tuesday, is i think you get a more hardened, more principled group of people on the right and on the left. it makes of that sort of bridging the divide a heck of a lot more difficult than it would be if you had more participation from all corners, especially if centrists and independent voters. host: let's get another caller. democratic caller right here from washington. caller: the point i and trying to make is the democrats do not know how to explain these tax cuts. the tax cut is for $250,000 of your income. of the to 50 -- $250,000 of income. if you make about that, you still get the tax cut. it is supposed to be for everybody. the 10 to say it is not for everybody, for people under $250,000. somebody just doesn't k
he did not have% so in texas there is a runoff. now they expect 350,000 people. those 350,000 people are part of what you referred to as, stand on principle. that is why a lot of people thing cruz is the favored right now. what you get as sort of the primaries become more decided by just the narrow swath of the 350,000 texans who are going to vote tuesday, is i think you get a more hardened, more principled group of people on the right and on the left. it makes of that sort of bridging the...
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the chair appoints the gentleman from texas, mr. marchand, to preside over the committee of the whole. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 5856 which the clerk will report the title. the clerk: a bill making appropriations for the department of defense for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2013, and for other purposes. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered read for the first time, the gentleman from florida, mr. young, and the swrelt from washington, mr. dick -- and the gentleman from washington, mr. dicks, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. mr. young: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is reck nighed. mr. young: -- is recognized. mr. young: this is the defense appropriations bill for 2013. it has been drawn with the cooperation of republicans and the democrats on the subcommittee, the democrats led by norm dicks and norm and i have worked toge
the chair appoints the gentleman from texas, mr. marchand, to preside over the committee of the whole. the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of h.r. 5856 which the clerk will report the title. the clerk: a bill making appropriations for the department of defense for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2013, and for other purposes. the chair: pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered read for the first time, the gentleman...
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you are aware of the drought going on here, north dakota, down to texas, the second year for kansas. we pretty much burned up, and cattle and poultry are effected dramatically. i would expect that the consumer applications, while not immediate, over the next year could be considerable. i said could be. we do not have all of the usda figures. the chairwoman and i are very concerned about. he did not know what is when you have been in regards to your cost of -- you do not know what is going to happen in regards to your cost of production could >> cost of feed is one of our biggest cost, and that is a concern going forward, but we live in a very competitive marketplace, and the 5% that we are talking about, over 18 years, is a fairly low number compared to the amount of money, or the prices that have gone up and down over the past couple of weeks. these short-term fluctuations are one thing. the long-term trend has been toward better technology, efficiency, and more room for the hands. it is how long the equipment less, 18,-20 years, the we are aware of the longer term trends, and quite
you are aware of the drought going on here, north dakota, down to texas, the second year for kansas. we pretty much burned up, and cattle and poultry are effected dramatically. i would expect that the consumer applications, while not immediate, over the next year could be considerable. i said could be. we do not have all of the usda figures. the chairwoman and i are very concerned about. he did not know what is when you have been in regards to your cost of -- you do not know what is going to...